flotsam - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • remove: Remove flotsam and jetsam from around the bay, and sort out into recyclable or not material.
  • leave: Superstition is not some kind of flotsam left by the ebbing tide of paganism.
  • wash: Sam stepped out, a piece of flotsam washed by the current against the wall.
  • collect: Four of us spent an afternoon collecting flotsam and debris left by visitors, but we made very little impact!
  • see: Peer into the waters and you will see a flotsam of drowned and bloated corpses.

Adjective modifier

  • tidal: Assist with the clean up of the beach by removing inter tidal flotsam.
  • cultural: My childhood in Ireland was filled with images of London from films, TV and much more cultural flotsam and jetsam.
  • assorted: The floods have left 12 tires washed up among the assorted plastic flotsam on the small silt island in the river.

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